Matomo
An open-source web analytics platform with complete data ownership and built-in privacy
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What is Matomo?
Matomo is an open-source analytics platform that gives users full control over their data and respects privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA. Data remains on your infrastructure with no third-party access, offering a transparent alternative to commercial analytics services.
What Matomo does
The capabilities that matter for event tracking, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Warehouse native
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- Server side tracking
- -
- Tracking plan governance
- -
- Consent management
- -
- Data residency EU
- -
- Real time streaming
- -
- HIPAA available
- ✓
- SOC2
- -
- Open source
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Matomo alternatives
Other event tracking we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- JitsuCollect and route event data from any source directly into your data warehouse with real-time streaminglow · 43%
- AvoEnsure analytics events are correctly defined, implemented, and monitored across your organizationlow · 42%
- SegmentA customer data platform that unifies and activates customer information across your entire technology stack.low · 13%
- SnowplowReal-time behavioral data layer that provides AI agents and analytics with contextual customer insightslow · 30%
- FreshpaintHealthcare marketing platform combining performance measurement with privacy compliancelow · 30%
- Piwik PROlow · 2%
Compare Matomo
Side by side against other event tracking, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Matomo, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 40 | 0.07 | 2.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.05 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.